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Jane Lee (b. 1963) Heartbeat III signed and dated 2015 (verso) each acrylic and heavy gel on fiberglass base 16" x 16" x 2" (41 cm x 41 cm x 6 cm) each   P 1,400,000 literature Fernandez, Annabelle. "Top Singapore Artist Jane Lee’s Visually Arresting 3D Artworks." Female Magazine. January 2016. Singapore. exhibited Art15: London Global Art Fair, Olympia, London, May 21 - 23, 2015. Singapore Tyler Print Institute - Creative Workshop and Gallery, Freely, Freely, Robertson Quay, Singapore, January 17 - March 5, 2016.   As one of Singapore’s most prominent contemporary artists, Jane Lee is known for her reconfiguration of the mediums of paint and painting to create her highly sensuous and tactile works where it traverses into the world of two - dimensional and three - dimensional. With a background in Fine Arts and Fashion, she challenged the notion of what constitutes a painting that’s why Tony Godfrey likened her works to artists whose paintings were anti - painting, he noted on his Jane Lee: Recent Paintings how Lee’s works embodied contrary elements - “they were playful, and serene, deconstructed and calm, inner directed but outwardly sensuous.” Hence, these characteristics are seen on her Heartbeat III. In an interview for an exhibition, Jane Lee explains Heartbeat: “With Heartbeat, the idea of removal came in the form of literally scoping out paint from a work of paint. After 100 Faces show, I started to realise that my work in the past was too meticulous and labour - intensive, and I was frequently layering my work. I started to question this working method. Could I do the reverse? Instead of layering, what if I did the opposite? At its basic, a painting is a surface. I asked myself what more I could remove from there. So I started to explore this idea of removal. The whole gallery became my canvas. All this emptiness of space - what do I do with it? Yet this emptiness is powerful. We spent much of our lives accumulating or adding, just as artists sometimes find ways to add and layer their work. But Emptiness speaks. It can actually enhance and bring out what you want to say.” With her constant challenging and redefining the possibilities of painting in unconventional ways, Jane Lee’s works has been exhibited widely in Hong Kong, Singapore, and New York, in return, she, received prestigious awards as well, such as the Celeste Prize 2011 in New York, and in 2007 was the first recipient of the Singaporean International Residency Art Prize.